Whirl of Birds by Liana Vrăjitoru Andreasen

$23.99

 

At times allegorical or satirical, these stories are delivered with wit and intense compassion. Like the personages of Matei Visniec’s theatrical panoply, who aim “rather to move the reader than to deliver clear and tonic messages,” Vrăjitoru Andreasen’s characters shake us out of complacency to confront us with the abyss of indifference and the tyrannies of desire.

–Mihaela Moscaliuc, author of Father Dirt, Immigrant Model, Cemetery Ink

 

To read a story by Liana Vrăjitoru Andreasen is like watching a single intricate flower bloom in slow-motion photography. You can’t quickly sum it up without dispelling the effect of a quiet, slow unfolding.

–Martin Bidney, author of When Two Friends Meet, Wordsongs for Music, Asclepiad Explorer, Shakespair

 

These stories reveal the terrifying power of art in the swirl of madness that is the life of the artmaker. But they are grounded enough to remember that even the most fantastic impulse of art is moored in the vulnerable humanity of intimate relationships and the great tremors of political history. These stories will shock and surprise because they are rooted as they are surreal.

–Saikat Majumdar, author of The Scent of God, The Middle Finger, The Fire Bird

 

 

 

 

 

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Whirl of Birds

by Liana Vrăjitoru Andreasen

Full-length, Paper

$21.99 List: $23.99

979-8-88838-732-0

2024

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The literary landscape of Whirl of Birds interlaces the spatial and temporal complexities of the mind, in narrative flickers and bursts. Whether we glimpse at the plight of Neanderthals in the depths of lost ages, or at the collapse of communism in the mirrors of a children’s theater, whether we’re uplifted by the triumph of friendship over poverty or watch the last cowboy in New York State struggle to save his business, we recognize how much we are driven by our passions. Strange, but all too human obsessions shape the characters: from rat hoarding to an infatuation with a sculpture, from lies we tell ourselves and others to encounters with the dead, readers are swept in whirls of time, chains of connectivity that can break like glass, the unseen that whispers in our ear. The twists and turns of these short stories create a restless world where self and other meet in glimpses. Each small moment becomes an earthquake that echoes through time, each life is wrestled out of its own darkness, to arrive at the one question that is worth asking.

 

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